The Equiery’s 2020 Stallion Line Up As we head into a new decade where the


world seems ever expanding and national young horse programs are dominated by imports, T e Equiery conducted a survey to produce a Maryland stallion count for the 2020 breed- ing season. What we found proves what we’ve always known… Maryland is the state for horses. Whether your goals are to represent the U.S. at an Olympic Games in dressage, win the National Reining Horse As- sociation World Championship title or fi nd yourself in the winner’s circle of a Triple Crown Race, the stallions you are looking for are right here in Maryland! We have T or-


oughbreds and Stan- dardbreds and Quarter Horses and Andalusions. Percherons, Irish Sport Horses, Morgans and Welsh Ponies. Warmbloods of nearly every kind and even rare breeds such as the Cleveland Bay. T ese Maryland stallions have produced top


show hunters, world-class trotters, halter hors- es, eventers, trail class winners, barrel runners and all-around family horses and ponies. Furthermore, Maryland’s foundation lines


have spread outside its borders and have hit the international stage in several disciplines. Shared on these pages are just a few of these amazing stallions and their accomplishments. Statistics presented here are gathered from our survey, stallion websites, Equiery archives, the Maryland Horse Industry Board and lots of


phone calls! Please note, these statistics may have missed a


few stallions here and there as not everyone we reached out to responded in time for prepar- ing this issue for print. If your stallion was not “counted,” please call or email T e Equiery’s editor at 443-537-6754 or edi- tor@equiery.com.


Stallion Numbers After boatloads of re-


search, we have found 155 stallions standing in Maryland for the 2020 season! T ese stallions represent 26 diff erent breeds as well as two crossbreds. According to the


The Percheron stallion standing in Taney- town, Windermere’s Ghost Rider, is one of the few stallions by the 2008 World Champion stallion Windermere’s Inferno. His dam is the National Champion and All American Mare Wapsi View Fantasy.


Maryland T oroughbred stallion database,


there


are 42 T oroughbreds standing in Maryland for the 2020 season. T e 2020 Maryland Stan-


dardbred Race Fund’s 2020 stallion roster was not available in time for this print edition but we estimate there are 22 Standardbred stallions standing in Maryland for 2020. After the T oroughbreds and Standardbreds,


the breed with the third most stallions repre- sented in our survey was the Hanoverian with 16 stallions. Arabians and Welsh Ponies shared the top fourth spot with 10 stallions each and Dutch Warmbloods round out the top fi ve breeds with nine. An overwhelming 50 stallions are found in Cecil County. T is can largely be attributed to the fact that Hilltop Farm, Inc., Winbak Farm, Anchor and Hope, and Northview Stal- lion Station are all located in Cecil County and


GOOGOO GAAGAA STANDS IN SWEDEN


On June 23, 2012, Googoo Gaagaa (Cam’s Rocket x Koras Trotter) trotted into the history books by shattering the world record for trotters of all ages previously set in 2010 by Arch Madness. Owned and trained by Richard Hans, the then three-year-old covered the 5/8-mile oval at Po- cono Downs (PA) in 1:50.4 to win the $500,000 Earl Beal Memorial Jr. Final. Corey Callahan drove him to victory. Later that same year, the colt set a new track record at Rosecroft on October 27, 2012. He cur-


rently holds the track record at Rosecroft for Three-Year-Old Colt Trotters at 1:54.1. As a two-year-old, Googoo Gaagaa was named 2011 Horse of the Year Two Year Old Colt/Gelding


Trotter by the Cloverleaf Standardbred Owner’s Association. He also earned the same title that year from the Maryland Standardbred Breeders Association. For his three-year-old season, Googoo Gaagaa was Cloverleaf’s 2012 Horse of the Year Three Year Old Colt/Gelding Trotter and MSBA’s Three Year Old Trotting Colt/Gelding. Then in 2018, his success hit an international stage and he was named MSBA’s Trotting Sire of the Year. Hans then sold the breeding sire to Broline Stutteri in Sweden where he now stands for the 2020 season.


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STALLION BREEDS IN MARYLAND


Below is a list of the various breeds represented in our 2020 Stallion Line Up


42 Thoroughbreds 22 Standardbreds 16 Hanoverians 10 Arabians 10 Welsh Ponies 9 Dutch Warmbloods 7 Oldenburgs


7 PRE (Andalusians) 5 American Paints 3 Cleveland Bays 2 Holsteiners 2 Irish Sport Horses 2 Morgans 2 Shetlands 2 crossbreds (1 APHA/AQHA and 1 Clyds/TB) 1 Sport Pony 1 Spotted Draft 1 Swedish Warmblood 1 Trakehner 1 Westfalen Pony 1 Zweibrucker 1 Percheron


1 Selle Luxembourgeois 1 New Forest Pony 1 Irish Draught 1 Appaloosa


A complete list of stallions standing in


Maryland for the 2020 season will be posted to equiery.com sometime this month! Be sure to follow The Equiery online at equiery.com!


each houses a large number of stallions. Harf- ord County houses approximately 18 stallions, Frederick 17 stallions and Carroll County 15.


Siring Sires


Quite a few well-known stallion names popped up as repeat sires of the 2020 stallion line up. T e number one stallion sire was the T oroughbred A.P. Indy with four stallions. T e Warmblood sire Lord Leatherdale fa- thered three stallions on our list, as did Not For Love (TB), Rubinstein (WB) and Spei- ghtstown (TB). T oroughbred stallions Malibu Moon and War Front sired two stallions each in our 2020 line up. Standardbred Real Artist also sired two stallions on our list.


Stallion Champs We had 19 stallion owners respond to our


survey before we went to press. Each stallion owner was asked to share the accomplish- ments of their stallions as well as what their off spring have accomplished. Below are just a few of these spectacular stallion stars! T oroughbred stallion Cuba (Not For Love


x Shaunless), standing at Royal Wux Farm in Kent County, won the Maryland Million Clas-


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